Bill Sewell also bestowed on his son an early familiarity with the ways of Bohemia (both big and little "B"): the English animation business, post-'68, absorbed "an influx of bewildered, talented Czechs," Sewell recalled — "scruffy, beer-drinking, roll-up-smoking, very droll old Czech fuckers".
Set in 1931, this Spanish romantic comedy, which won the Academy Award for best froeign film tells the story of Fernando Jorge Sanzz), a deserter from the Spanish Army who finds refuge with Manolo Fernando Fernan Gomez), a droll worldly old painter who happens to have four beautiful daughters.
Labbadia, who was once an honest poacher wearing Munich's colours in the droll, bad old days of the early 90s, a million years ago, spoke of his "deep sadness" straight after the final whistle on Saturday, in anticipation of the inevitable axe.
Mr. Hederman, a fit, droll 40-year-old, has lived on the island all his life.
He was the athletic, droll, faintly reclusive oldest son of Seymour Durst, the patriarch of the Durst real estate empire.
After sharing elevator rides with Anna Wintour, the editor in chief of Vogue, Condé Nast employees sat down at their desks and typed accounts of their vertical journeys with the fashion icon, which they then sent anonymously, by e-mail, to Elizabeth Spiers, a droll 26-year-old native of Wetumpka, Ala., who runs the Web log Gawker.
The movie sets up its action with the droll framework of an old, illustrated book of Western stories, further emphasizing that this movie is like the Western stories that it parodies a batch of back-constructed tall tales.
The sequence calls for a droll physical wit and old-fashioned, soubrettish charm, both of which she has in spades.
Davis, a droll seventy-six-year-old Oklahoman with a helmet of silver hair, stopped by the other evening to survey his work.
In the Salon, a giant, droll color photograph of an older woman in a trenchcoat, shooting flames from her wrists, seemed to epitomize the place.
Since winning his Pulitzer prize for criticism, Hilton Als has risen more visibly to the role of public intellectual, one that he plays particularly well: droll, genial, grand in the old-fashioned style, with occasional asides redolent of famous writers in less media-trained times.
